In his book, The Lucifer Effect, psychologist Phillip Zimbardo suggests that the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison were the result of a bad social setting that contaminated the individual prison guard. What would Kant say about the difficulty of ethical conduct in the face of situation pressure to be unethical?

a. Unethical behavior is a natural result of peer pressure.
b. Ethical people endure, despite the situation, since they follow specific rules.
c. If the guards were better instructed by their leaders, this would not have happened.
d. It is better to conform that to risk retaliation at the hands of supervisors.


Ans: b. Ethical people endure, despite the situation, since they follow specific rules.

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